After having the impression that everything has been already seen, showed, tried, experienced, and consumed...
What can still shock the consumers and the audience?
Shock advertising is usually the answer. The answer most marketers are going to give.
[Domestic violence for a coffee, anyone?
Shock advertising is usually related to a specific culture and time:
what is shocking or gross now,
could have been socially accepted in the past and viceversa]
could have been socially accepted in the past and viceversa]
What do you think about shock advertising? Does it make you feel uncomfortable or inspired?
Do you find some advertising campaigns interesting, original, funny, ironic? Are they pure genius and are able to start a conversation or are they just gross and unpleasant?
[Advertising promoted by IndyAct.Org
for the "Stop the Carnage" campaign]
Even if not always, I have overall a good opinion about very aggressive advertising campaigns because they force people to reflect on topics and subjects too often forgotten, such domestic violence, children abuse, racism, discrimination, organ donation, endangered species, human and animal rights, pollution and so on.
One of my favorite campaigns ever is a frightful portrait of a French anorexic girl created a couple of years ago by Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani:
[No-l-ita advertising campaign by Oliviero Toscani]Unforgettable, don't you think?
Unfortunately, it's not a photo-manipulated image. No Photoshop here, just the nightmare of an anorexic girl and her terribly thin, almost inhuman body and her desire to become even thinner and maybe to vanish for good.
At the time of the photo shooting, this picture has provoked a big scandal in Italy. However, in my opinion, the real scandal is anorexia, not showing it.
What do you think?
Tags: Shock advertising, Marketing, Forgotten topics, Anorexia, No-l-ita, Photography, Oliviero Toscani
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